Chapter 33 Roaming the Chaos

"Hmm?"

Dongjun True Immortal, hiding within his bowl-shaped treasure, was surprised to find that Ji Ning had stopped attacking.

"Stopped?" Dongjun True Immortal's mind stirred, and the bowl-shaped treasure retracted into his body. Maintaining a treasure consumed divine power, and many prisoners here had their treasure robes damaged over long ages without maintenance. Though treasures were generally hard to damage, they could still be ruined over several chaos cycles.

Dongjun True Immortal looked up at the white-robed youth standing in midair and sneered, "I advise you to give up. A weak True Immortal like you, unleashing sword-light of such power, must be consuming a lot of divine power. Soon your power will be exhausted, and you'll have to leave the World Prison to recover, which also takes time... Attacking me again and again, recovering each time, it will take you a very long time to drain my power."

"Afraid?" Ji Ning suddenly said.

Dongjun True Immortal choked.

"Hmph." He snorted coldly and said no more.

Indeed.

His divine power could not be replenished, while the warden's power could be continuously restored. Given enough time, his power would eventually be exhausted.

"Let's see how patient you are," Dongjun True Immortal thought to himself.

The Eight Fires Universe Realm was placed by Ji Ning within the Water Mansion.

Ji Ning had arranged for one of his avatars to first leave the 'stone stele', bring the Eight Fires Universe Realm, and then deliver it here. Because of the great distance, it took over a day to fly here.

"Hmm?" Dongjun True Immortal frowned as he saw another white-robed youth flying in the distance.

"Taowu Eighteen Divine Demons?" Dongjun True Immortal immediately guessed.

"Do you think attacking you consumes much divine power?" The white-robed youth waved his hand, and a lotus of flame swiftly flew into the air, directly above Dongjun True Immortal. Then the flame lotus flipped over, facing downward, and rapidly expanded to a thousand miles in size, its petals beginning to bloom.

The eight petals fully opened, and a torrent of heavenly fire poured down.

"Damn it." Dongjun True Immortal's expression changed, and the bowl-shaped treasure immediately reappeared, covering him.

The sky-filling flames enveloped him, burning around the bowl-shaped treasure, turning the earth to ash.

Dongjun True Immortal floated there, covered by the large bowl.

The eight true fires surrounded him from all directions, blazing madly.

...

"Hmph, this is much easier." Ji Ning stood in midair, watching. The Eight Fires Universe Realm formed its own world, burning the enemy. But it wasn't invincible; if the enemy escaped its range, they would no longer be attacked by the eight true fires. However, this prisoner couldn't leave that area.

He could only endure the siege of the eight true fires.

This was a treasure personally refined by the Ancestral God 'Zhurong'. The combined power of the eight true fires was astonishing. But since it inherently contained the eight true fires, the attack mainly relied on them. Ji Ning only needed to maintain the treasure, occasionally inputting a bit of divine power.

...

"Damn, damn." Dongjun True Immortal grew anxious. "This flame attack relies on the fire itself. It consumes little of his divine power, so he can keep it up forever. But I have to maintain my treasure to resist. At this rate..."

"Where did he get such a treasure?"

Dongjun True Immortal was both anxious and furious.

The 'Eight Fires Universe Realm', containing the eight true fires, alone was worth over a hundred top-grade Pure Yang treasures. Even after killing three Celestial Immortals and True Immortals in the World Prison, Ji Ning hadn't obtained such a treasure.

...

The Water Mansion.

A stone stele stood in the hall.

Swoosh.

Ji Ning appeared out of nowhere, looked at the stone stele, and with a thought, the stele turned into a stream of light and flew into his brow.

"Out." Ji Ning looked to the side, and fifteen figures appeared simultaneously, each appearing to have only the aura of a Celestial Immortal, with varied appearances. These fifteen were fifteen of Ji Ning's eighteen avatars, transformed using the Eighty-Nine Divine Arts.

"With the Eighty-Nine Divine Arts, even True Gods and Dao Ancestors would have to see them in person and use some eye-type divine abilities to see through the disguise. Otherwise... even if some mighty ones can probe the Three Realms or even penetrate the innate spirit treasure Water Mansion, they probably can't see that these fifteen are my avatars," Ji Ning thought.

Penetrating an innate spirit treasure to probe its secrets was extremely difficult.

Fewer than ten in the Three Realms could do it.

With the ninth level of the Eighty-Nine Divine Arts... once transformed, a long-distance probe through the innate Water Mansion couldn't see through the disguise.

"Only if no one knows I have many avatars can these avatars better protect my life and have unexpected effects," Ji Ning thought.

...

Ji Ning left the Water Mansion, arrived at the thatched hut, withdrew the incarnation beside him, walked out, looked up at Wubao Mountain ahead, and transmitted, "Nine Fang."

A stream of light flew over, and the bald old man Nine Fang Heavenly God quickly said, "Master."

"Return to the Plucking Star Great World first; I have matters to attend to," Ji Ning said.

"Yes." Nine Fang Heavenly God acknowledged.

Then,

Ji Ning boarded the Void Boat alone and directly left the Sword Immortal Realm.

...

In the endless void, there were many huge stars, the most dazzling being the Sun Star and the Moon Star. In terms of size, even the Nuwa Great World and the Xinhuo Great World were much smaller than these two. The light and heat released by these two supreme stars nurtured the entire Three Realms.

These stars were also born from chaos.

When Pangu split heaven and earth, a vast amount of chaos was consumed, and the surrounding void appeared—this was the origin of the endless void. With much chaos consumed, the stars originally in chaos emerged.

"Whoosh."

A Void Boat flew through the void.

It continuously teleported, even appearing on some stars, and soon flew to the edge of the void. Though called 'endless void', it had an end, beyond which was chaos. The Void Boat plunged directly into chaos, continuing to fly through it.

...

"Hmm?" In the dark world, on the ten-thousand-foot throne suspended in midair, the God King pondered, "This Ji Ning, why has he entered chaos?"

Ji Ning suddenly left the Sword Immortal Realm and even entered chaos. The Nuwa camp hadn't noticed yet, but the Non-Descent Gate side knew first, as they had been monitoring him, fearing another sneak attack.

"What is he doing in chaos?" The God King was puzzled.

"Unfortunately, I can't investigate."

Even with formidable divine abilities, the God King's invisible power could probe the void, as it had no obstacles. But in the endless chaos, the obstruction was too great to probe.

...

Chaos was infinite, filled with endless gray mist containing mysterious power. If one could comprehend the 'Chaos Heavenly Dao', they could draw 'chaos power' from the mist. But Ji Ning couldn't do that yet; in chaos, he couldn't replenish from external sources, only consuming his own divine power or elixirs.

Of course, short-term roaming in chaos was fine.

If he roamed too long, his power would be exhausted, and he would die trapped in chaos.

"So many stars."

In chaos, one often found stars, some as small as a million miles, others larger than a great world.

These stars, being close to the Three Realms, had long been thoroughly explored by mighty ones, and their maps were marked. Ji Ning, using maps from Mount Fangcun, teleported short distances to reach various stars.

"This star will do."

Swoosh.

The Void Boat arrived at a star entirely composed of solid ice, comparable in size to the Daxia World. The star emitted endless cold, with huge ravines like canyons and raised peaks on its surface. Strong winds blew, but there was no life.

Even divine demons and immortals were unwilling to live on such a bitterly cold star.

"Go."

Ji Ning willed it.

A stone stele flew from his brow, heading toward a deep canyon ahead. Soon, carried by the wind, it fell into the canyon's depths. Under Ji Ning's mind-sense, the stele landed at the bottom, quickly covered by ice, frozen deep within the star.

Others couldn't probe with mind-sense, but Ji Ning, having mastered the stele, could sense it.

"The stele is here; no one can detect it," Ji Ning thought. "In chaos, even mighty ones can't probe through it. Even if someone with immense power and mysterious means could cover this area with mind-sense, the stele itself is mysterious. Outsiders must see it with their own eyes."

Even if a mighty one knew Ji Ning had the stele and hid it on this star, they would have to search every inch of the star with their own eyes.

Searching a star the size of the Daxia World inch by inch was a dream.

Moreover, no one knew Ji Ning had placed the stele here.

Except for Shaoyin Chou, no one knew Ji Ning had the stele! And Shaoyin Chou didn't know its true value.

"Here..."

"Will be my final counterattack point."

"If I suffer a catastrophic disaster, at least the two avatars hidden in the stele can still cultivate and restore all avatars," Ji Ning thought.

Swoosh.

Then the Void Boat toured some other stars in chaos before Ji Ning left chaos and returned to the endless void. He only dared to roam the chaos near the Three Realms, which had been thoroughly explored, not venturing deep.

No one knew...

That during this entry into chaos, Ji Ning had released the stele, which contained two avatars. Those two avatars, using the 'Eight Fires Universe Realm' and other Pure Yang treasures that released wind, fire, thunder, and lightning, were fiercely attacking the True Immortal and True God.

...

Returning to the endless void, he then arrived at the Daxia World.

Ji Ning stood in midair, took out a token, and poured divine power into it.

"Disciple." Bodhi's voice sounded in Ji Ning's ear.

"Disciple wants to return to the Crescent Great World and also has something to tell Master," Ji Ning said.

Whoosh.

A vortex appeared in midair beside him, and Ji Ning stepped directly into it, heading to the Crescent Great World.

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